The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-05-19
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1T Is proposed 10 put $4,000, 600 Russian
peasants back into sorfdom.
A. Hoss is the name oi newly elected
justice OF tho peace at Peru, III.
BURGLAR seldom does his work alone.
nc generally has jimmy with him.
WHEN Henry George lived in California
ne was nm Inspector Of gas meters.
ANomaha grocer gives away an original
poem with every cake Of soap ho sells.
~ New York u policeman clnbbed a
young man for performing on ain acoor.
dion
LoNpoN has thirty seven theaters. tgon.
ysosrn music halls and iftycight con.
cert rooms
As unknown quantity may be described
az what you got when you buy quart box
uf strawberries
ptkks VlcromAA Jubilee has been oela-
DRAFTED with great pomp In Tcheran, the
capital OF Persia
InE Russian duty on iron and steel, and
on articles manufactured from iron and
steel, has been raised
Am now comes tho report that Russia
aud Austria are plotting against Turkeys
European possessions:
lhE old home Of Aaron Burr Ia among
inc property just purchased by a real
estate syndicate Ia New York.
fiTrr rnoesASp copies OF Mrs. Cleye.
lands photograph have already been sold.
The.domand Is about 80 day
Jar GorLD's purchases Of Arkansas
lands, cover fully ten thousand acres, 10.
Gated In threo different counties.
Tuh Philadelphia Pr,s says The college
curriculum now consists OF "A base. bail
guide, and Hanlanis rules on rowing.
GESrnAL BucKSER's admirers In Ken.
tncky are going 10 make "Ilolivar. Betty
and tho Baby their campaign slogan.
TnE bequcsts left Philadelphia by
stephen 0irard are now estimated 10 rop
resent a money value Of over $40 nOo0.
Tnr richest young man in Philadelphia
eociety Is August T. Jessup lie Is only
twenty -four, aud has an Income Of siu,0oO a
ySr.
IL his ninety years Kaiser Wilhelm ha,
survived no fewer than seventy two roign.
ing tovcrcigns who wcro his contompor.
aries.
TiENcw York Senate has passed Bill
prohibiting tho usc of coal stoves in cars.
This is a good timo to put such law in
torcc
GovHRSoR ANrs, Of Massachusetts, lives
In magnificent style. l, costs him fully
10000 year TO keep up his Boston estab-
lishment
THn University of Pennsylvania has dc
cided that from tho opening Of n0xt session
no cigarette smoking by the students will
be allowed.
a CAiiroRNiA court has decided that
when a man is taken ~ AT hotel 10 oxtra
charge can be mado for serving his meals
Ia his room
'fnE longost continuous railway run now
made is said 10 be that Of tho new Saraio.
ga limited, from Now York to Troy tI4s
milcsl without stop t@~
Tmr Interstate Commerce Commission
has takon 400 pages Of testimony relative
To the operation Of the long aud short haul
clause in tho South
"kArioLAsI Kaptivates Kallfornla.
Kome, Kwcenly knnaka,n is the rnpt way
In which the Boston Transcript addresses
the Hawaiian Queen.
ONE Of the Albany IN. W storoieepcrs
is young girl fifteen years old She
manages the store without assistance, and
pursucs growing business.
THE Paris exhibition Of 1859 will be post
poncd till 1870, and win probably be aban-
doncd eventually on account OF lack OF
cooperation by other countries.
MIL KiLBnIDE, Irish tenant, in this couu-
try with Editor William O'Brien, is worth
$4,000 and lives in palace which would
ront in any city for slOOo0a year.
DuLuTH has among her citizens, Spring,
Winter, Summer, Breeze, Raincy, Dewey,
Frost and Snow, but claims that Mr. Cy
Clone has mover visited the city yet
THE gifts Of tho late VIM Dc Pauw, ln-
diana glass manufacturer, 10 the Green
castle dnd,) University, which bears his |
name, amount TO more than Sl,000,000.
ST. PAU has land syndicate which |
gives land free 10 new manufactures lo-
eating there, and thoy employ salaried
agent TO travel and drum up business
The probability that Sunday ballplay-
Ing in Illinois viii be stopped by action OF
the Legislature has thrown o dampcr on
the spirits OF the amateur clubs in tho
State.
In the list OF letters advertised AS re-
naming unclaimed In the Perth Amboy
postonlco is one addressed to "Ralyomi-
haly Tolopsiz Alcmakovuz Malyasgd Dol
choruk.n
WOMAN, Mrs. Louise Daniels, has been
licensed as pilot of Lake Champlain
steamer. Her examination, conducted by
U. $, Inspectors, is said to have been most
satisfactory.
OF tho six million women in Brazil, only
half million can read or write. And in
the remote districts, II man has occasion
TO leave home, he locks up his house and
puts his wife In a convent until he re-
turns.
A CONTRACTOR engaged on tho grading at
i.anshsad's coke works, at Fairchance,
Pa, on the Southwest railroad, is the
owner OF a horse which possesses the re-
mnrkabe growth Of flowing moustacho
on its upper lip.
JAY GouLD has taken to eating snalls
He got his strange appetite while in New
Mexico recently. They are roasted in the
shell after the manner of clans, and arc
said to make palatablc dish.
Ir is denied in Washington that Secre-
tary Lamar's declination TO attend the din
ner given by tho President to Queen Kap-
iolani was on account OF the latter's color.
The Secretary, il is said, was ILL.,
l'mLAprLrniA has double the houses Of
New York, with less population New
York IL distinguished for the extremes OF
and tramps Philadelphia 10
as the "Clty OF Homes